Dr. Marie Stango

Assistant Professor, Department of History

Marie Stango is a historian of the nineteenth century United States, and Assistant Professor of History at Idaho State University. She is a first-generation college graduate, earning her BA in History from New York University and PhD in History from the University of Michigan. Stango joined the ISU community in Fall 2019 and teaches courses ranging from General Education undergraduate classes to graduate-level seminars. She offers courses on a variety of topics, including women’s history, early American history, religion in American history, and a course on the history of witchcraft and magic. In all her courses, she aims to offer students research opportunities. Since 2023 she has worked with the Sharing Stories from 1977 digital humanities initiative at the University of Houston to provide ISU undergraduate students with the unique opportunity to research and digitally publish their work on delegates to the 1977 National Women’s Conference.

Stango has twice been awarded an Open and Affordable Education Resources grant from ISU to find free or low-cost materials for her General Education courses and was named an ISU Textbook Hero in 2020. She works closely with future K-12 educators pursuing History endorsements and regularly teaches a course for teacher candidates on History pedagogy. Similarly, she supervises MA students in the History department and has worked with numerous current high school teachers completing their MA in History, as well as dual enrollment instructors in our local high schools.